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  • The most significant change in Come in! Transfer Network

     

    How can one capture the change reached or created thanks to a transfer process. Who is the most affected by these changes? How is it possible to detect outcomes and societal impact linked to a

  • Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

    The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

    I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just

  • So much more than the IKEA quarter… Transfer story of Targówek, Warsaw

    Few people are well acquainted with Targówek. In the minds of Warsaw residents, this district is rather described as: "a peripheral part of the city", "somewhere far beyond Praga", "I heard that the

  • A transfer story going viral. Bringing the good practice to the sub-urbs and urban green spaces

    When 2020 came we felt we were ready and could set about creating our community festival, highlighting the built environment of the neighbourhoods, its character and stories and introducing the radio

  • Exit from the city centre. What was recently built in Varaždin, HR?

    Being very very proud of their neat and preserved historical city, the people of Varaždin love stories about the pink facades of baroque palaces in the historic city centre. But they rarely or never

  • Community in the making: how to build communities in socialist housing estates?

    "Every house is interesting,” says the motto of the good practice, the Budapest100 festival which involves volunteers and residents to celebrate the built heritage around us for more than ten years

  • An Armenian Hungarian guy from Romania and his URBACT transfer story

    When I was a child, my grandmother always told me a lot about being Armenian. It was weird to me because we lived and actually still live the same way as the Szekler majority in my town

  • Another way of looking at Plasencia

    People in Plasencia are very proud of their medieval and renaissance heritage, the main protagonists of the city. But the weight of the medieval architecture often makes modern, residential buildings

  • Đurek 60 – New community Festival in Varaždin

    The URBACT Come In Talking Houses/Shared Stories Transfer Network had another successful festival modelled on the Budapest 100 Open House Weekend held in Varaždin.